Shucks thanks Jhymi, I needed the writing encouragement a whole lot! I appreciate you!! 💕 As I said to Marlyn above, friends like you here help me a lot to actually post instead of just hording drafts haha 🤗

I'd rather be too passionate than lose empathy! I can totally see you being a scrappy one too 😎👊

As for the girl... yeah, I know all too well that it's a lot harder for people to leave abuse than it seems from the outside... 😥 I've often hoped that what happened didn't make things worse for her, and that she moved on from that idiot and prospered.

As you said, the world is full of a lot of hate and scary shit... I try to remember that since the beginning of time people have been proclaiming that everything was falling apart and we were all doomed... but sometimes I think that's it's real this time 🤣

I like to believe that we will be alright, but I am also a dreamer. As long as I can do good things and I know other people are doing them too, I won't give up. I think enough of us feel that way that beautiful humans will prevail in time ✊